Civil War Sermons and Other Writings of Northern Protestant Ministers
Facsimile editions from the site Making of America, a vast digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American history [Home page: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu]. Titles include:

• Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. “War and Emancipation. A Thanksgiving Sermon, Preached in the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday, November 21, 1861.”
  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ACK9291



• Gilbert Haven. National Sermons. Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War: From the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill to the Election of President Grant [including “The War and the Millennium,” 1863], 1869.
  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABZ3621



• Edward Payson Powell. Sermons on Recent National Victories, and the National Sorrow. Preached, April 23d, 1865, in the Plymouth Church, by the Pastor, E. P. Powell. 1865.
  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ACK9066



• Sermons on Slavery & the Civil War [19 sermons delivered in Boston by various clergymen, 1851-1865). 1865.
  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=AAT1148



• Robert Livingston Stanton. The Church and the Rebellion against the Government of the United States; and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation Thereto.
  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ACP6884



• Rev. Marvin R. Vincent. “Our National Discipline: A Thanksgiving Sermon, Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N.Y., Nov. 26, 1863.”
  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABZ3961

Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day, March 30, 1863
http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln/speeches/fast.htm
From the nonprofit site Abraham Lincoln Online.

Sermon Delivered at Lincoln’s Funeral
http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln/speeches/gurley.htm
Sermon delivered by Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. On the nonprofit site Abraham Lincoln Online.

The Emancipation Proclamation (document) http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/index.html Images of the five-page document, with text and resources, from the National Archives.

Battle Hymn of the Republic

• Lyrics and audio clip, from the site “Poetry and Music of the War between the States.”
  http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/union/songs/battle_hymn.html
• Lyrics of first manuscript version and final published version, with Howe’s notes on its creation; from a personal website of historic American documents.
  http://home.sprintmail.com/~astronomer/documents/battlehymn.htm
• Facsimile of first draft, from the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library Programs and Projects.
  http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/richards/howe/battle.html

The Record of a Quaker Conscience: Cyrus Pringle's Diary
http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/4/pringle.php
From the private website “Vermont in the Civil War.”

Quaker History in the Civil War: Bibliography
http://www.pym.org/library/lists/quakhis2.htm
Nonfiction, fiction, and audiovisual titles, from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

The United States Civil War Center of Louisiana State University: Religion Links
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/links8.htm#religion
Among the sites included on this list are:

• Religious Activities in Two Virginia Counties during the Civil War
  http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/Browser2/headings.html A compelling look into local religious activities and commentary during the Civil War from the periodicals of two counties, one northern and one southern. On this page, scroll to the link Church/Religious Activities. From the superlative Civil War site, The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, which presents primary sources and research projects comparing one Northern county (Franklin County, Pennsylvania) and one Southern county (Augusta County, Virginia). From the University of Virginia, at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2.
• United Methodist Church: The Slavery Question and the Civil War http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?mid=1213
  A brief section in the online church history, on the official site of the United Methodist Church.
• The History of the Catholic Church in the U.S.: The Civil War, Reconstruction (audio clips)
  http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/frmselecrprog.asp?seriesID=-6892290&T1=history
  Scroll down to programs #6, “The Civil War,” and #7, “Reconstruction,” segments of the 1998 radio series presented on EWTN by historian Fr. Charles Connor, Ph.D. From the site of EWTN: The Global Catholic Network at http://www.ewtn.com/.
• Jews in the Civil War
  http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar.htm
  Over fifty primary sources from the Union and Confederate sides, plus two historical novels, a database of Jewish-American Civil War veterans, a bibliography, and weblinks from Jewish American History on the Web, an independent project L. M. Berkowitz at http://www.jewish-history.com. The titles include “The Bible View of Slavery” by Rabbi Dr. Morris J. Raphall (1861) and two anti-slavery replies to Rabbi Raphall’s treatise.
• A Brief History of the United States Army Chaplain Corps: Chapter Three: The Civil War
  http://www.usachcs.army.mil/history/brief/chapter_3.htm
  Click to Chapter Three on this page for an overview of Union chaplains in the Civil War, including the first African American, Jewish, and women army chaplains. From the site of the United States Army Chaplain Center and School, Fort Jackson, South Carolina

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